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Seems like a troll article to me.

Of course people are comparing TypeScript to Dart. They do the same freaking thing-- provide you with a different way to write code to run in the browser.

Then he presents the metaphysical distinction between "building on JS" (good) versus "interop with JS" (bad). What's the difference? Neither language is JS. If something breaks, you're still going to be debugging code that isn't the code you wrote-- it's generated code.

I feel no better informed after reading this article than before. Will someone please do a straightforward comparison between Dart, TypeScript, and CoffeeScript? It might be kind of hard because as far as I can see, TypeScript does not build on Linux.

P.S. Is "it doesn't even use the JS numeric type" supposed to be a put-down of Dart? I always thought the JS numeric type was a big mistake. Who would want to be forced to use floats for everything? Inaccurate and slow-- two great tastes that taste great together.
I saw this in japan with cellphones at least 5 years ago.
Finally, someone has the guts to say, that failed logins should tell the user, what is wrong: username or password
So I like a lot of the analysis in this article, but couldn't help taking issue with some of it. Here are some thoughts that came to mind. Worth noting that I work on security / spam fighting at Facebook, but these are solely my personal opinions.

"Social login buttons put security in someone else’s hands"
You're damn right they do! I argue that in 99.9% of cases that's a great thing, for 3 reasons:

1. Facebook invests significant resources in both keeping bad guys out (we have been able to dramatically reduce large-scale phishing with a number of updates to our login security systems) and ensuring everyone else can get into their accounts easily. I can only speak for us, but I assume Twitter spends a lot of time on this as well. I imagine it'd be tough for a startup to keep up with the 10-20 people we have working on this problem at any given time.

2. It's incredibly difficult to build a password system that is both easy to use and secure. There's an almost endless ever changing list to make sure you're hashing and salting properly, don't have SQL injection flaws, implement robust rate-limiting without allowing DoS, etc. We've all seen many people screw it up in recent years. One of the largest benefits of Facebook Connect for startups is the ability to leverage our investment in these systems, without having to invest the significant time we have spent iterating on them.

3. We've spent a lot of time working on every aspect of login, so that startups don't have to. Your job is to build whatever technology differentiates you from your competitors, and make it worlds better than theirs. Any time you spend pfutzing with password hashing, building a better password recovery flow, or arguing about how to fail when people type in the wrong password is time you could better spend making a truly wonderful product. Unless you're trying to build a startup that helps people login, any time spent on this is better spent elsewhere.
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I don't think the founders sat around thinking up ways for people to be paid. The money earned by copyright wasn't the point, that was just the necessary incentive at that time to achieve the goal: that people wrote for publication, so that people could read.
And there are probably other great works that might be produced, were it not for copyright.

No model is the only possible world, and certainly not the best possible world. Different models give you different things.

People figure out how to make a living in whatever system is available.
Check out these links regarding the logic behind acquires being much more than a talent acq.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4325445

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4272331

Most specifically this comment I made:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4273436
That's my experience as well. Because of this I use DDG as my main search engine now, mostly for privacy but also because I can switch to Google when it or Bing's index is lacking.
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Depends on the gig. Of course the market is awash in no-budget clients and small shops operating on a shoestring. They don't pay worth shit.

The big name Drupal shops in DC are constantly hiring and are shelling out something like double the average PHP developer salary for experienced Drupal developers. More if you're good enough to contribute to the core project.

I'm telecommuting for one of these shops and making over double the local average wage for PHP devs. If I wanted to make more cash in this area I'd have to either take a management position or start coding .net

For reasons that are mysterious to me .net developers in my area are making (on average) 30-50k+ more a year than developers at a similar point in their career, but coding in different languages.
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The only right answer is to A/B test on your own product. It can work out that your initial conversions are higher but your paid conversions are much lower, so make sure to test the net result.

Convincing people they can cancel their account and get a 100% refund can go a long way, if that makes sense for your product.
Weirdly enough the fact that this is a marketing campaign by Microsoft seems to be ignored when considering the numbers in the press release. There is also the curious omission of the percentage of people who found Bing to be “better” than Google.

Any reaction to Bing could have been a result of people being exposed to it for the first time not necessarily it being the “better” option. It also could be that people are having a positive impression simply because it’s not as bad as they imagined it would be, as indicated by this claim: “64% of people were surprised by the quality of Bing’s web search results.”.

Also there is the matter of the ridiculous disclaimer about the features being omitted in the side-by-side as if they aren't integral to the search experience, not to mention that seemingly all queries to Google appear to be originating from Seattle which degrades the quality of local queries by user located elsewhere.

On a related note I recommend reading the How to lie with statistics book, it's required reading especially when outlets copy/paste press releases:
http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/039...
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Why people will be more willing to speak to strangers in the future than now?. There is a need to be in contact with your friends and family, but I don't see a general urgency to meet strangers. I travel a lot for work and I am a lot of tome on my own, and still can't find the need to go talking to people I don't know.

Conecting people could be great for learning languajes though.
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Scalability isn't automatic. If you're growing hyper fast you need all your infrastructure ducks in a row. Review, measure, scale & grow.
It's pronounced "shah three."
What incentive does a blog author have to produce excellent work? Ego, satisfaction, reputation, altruism ... Many others, and we have an incredibly diverse, informative and entertaining collection of work today, much of it distributed for free. The authors get whatever the authors get.

I think the web is evidence that copyright monopoly is no longer necessary to promote publication. People figure out how to get paid in some way, or they get some other benefit.

I've learned at least as much reading blog posts and other web content as I have from my college texts.

Copyright is not the only way, and I don't think it's even necessary anymore. People write and converse because they want to write and converse. Some of those want to make money from it, and they'll figure out a way, either by selling their work directly or by using their work for reputation to gain entry to employment and other activity.
I actually re-read your comment a couple of times searching for an sort of argument at all, let alone "blowing" it.
Based on my two minutes of salary research I can say that someone with the title "Drupal Developer" make substantially less than someone with a title "Django Developer" (about $10k in SF), and (again, in SF terms), substantially less than the average software engineer without a framework in their title. From what I've seen on job posts over the last couple of years, including the framework in the title is something relatively endemic to Drupal, so I'm assuming that they don't get lumped into "Software Engineer" too often.

So let's take compensation out of the discussion.

Now let's just list the actual problems with Drupal.

It seems like there are as many drawbacks are there are off-the-shelf features when you're making Drupal the core of your own product. It also seems to make a lot of assumptions about your application following a very specific CRM architecture.

I'd personally prefer to spend the effort on building out the CRM components myself using a more modular framework so I have more control over the architecture, the version control history, etc.

It sort of seems like Drupal tries really hard to set itself apart from WordPress. In reality, it seems the major PHP CRMs all fall into this very narrow point of view on what the responsibilities are of the implementing developer. This minimization of implementation detail promotes a very limited perspective on how a PHP web application works. So now your product's architecture is hobbled by the philosophies of the core library as well as those most apt to develop on it.
I think you answered your own question. Google wanted a fundamentally different language, not just JS with some extra features thrown in. As to what will win out in the end-- I have no idea.
The documentation point is important - it's been used in so many projects that a lot of weird fringe cases occurring in only the most bizarre setups have been documented. There is a lot of value in that, and it takes time to build a similar body of knowledge for newer platforms.
Much bigger sin: Boing Boing style "endlessly load more content with Javascript" nonsense.

If you're browsing on an (arguably flawed in its implementation) iOS device where page state gets unexpectedly dumped all the time (e.g, tab switching, browser crashes, "multitasking" switches out to an IM client), this style of "pagination" is utterly pants. I end up having to manually edit the URL to advance through content like Boing Boing and Tumblr just to be sure that when Safari or Chrome inevitably next dump my page state I won't have to start from the very top again.
Very true, realy it is 33% of those who bothered to try it and bothered not to verify the results and bothered to tell them. I had a go, had a big fat picture splat up on my screen with some perverce advent calandar mentality going on. I concluded Bing failed at that point, and as I didn't record my input as many others then I was never counted.

That raises the point that optional feedback will gain 100% of those who migrate at the time and a far lower percentage of those who will not. So that 33%, well you can half that and half again and still be short on the number who tried it.

Now if that 33% was also backed up by access log saying we had 10,000 unique vistors to this experiment and 33% of those said they were using bing now then I'd be less sceptic.

You can also bet this 33% will get turned into 33.33 recuring % or 1/3rd and from there the lie will be complete.
Ask HN: digital IP startups? 
Anyone part of, or know, a start-up that is doing digital IP? Like creating "soft core" modules using HDL (and possibly "hard cores" by doing physical design) and then selling/licensing the designs?

Any advice for someone interested in this field? What would you say are good niche opportunities? Maybe trying to create a processor/ISA to compete with ARM for smartphones wouldn't be a good start haha.

Cheers
> "it is actually painstaking in its argumentation and attention to nuance"

No it's not. It doesn't follow anything through to a conclusion, it just berates people who attack strawmen, or who dismiss others' arguments out of hand, whether that dismissal is warranted or not.

Just taking the "I'm not racist but.." argument on that post: are you really saying that there is no other way to phrase your argument? It's guaranteed to cause a reaction in everybody with an opinion on the issue and it's somehow their fault for not giving your argument proper attention or missing a nuance somewhere?

And then you complain about bad rhetorical hygiene. State your case in a way that your audience can understand and engage with it, and you'll get a better response.
Using kickstart for this seems just sort of bizarre.

It smells more like some sort of weird scam, but I can't imagine who would fall for it...
Lawrence Dignan, Editorial Director of CBS Interactive and Editor in Chief of ZDNet and Smart Planet has weighed in. It might be worth a read for anyone interested in discussion on the matter.

A word about Dennis Howlett - http://www.zdnet.com/a-word-about-dennis-howlett-7000005135/

Disclosure:

I am a freelance reporter and blogger for ZDNet, as well as CBS Interactive property c|net.

I don't know Howlett and have not observed his behavior or practices and I have no opinion on this. I simply saw that there was a significant response.
>(Ford)'s amazing success with low R&D expenditure (they had one engine design that ran from the 70's to the 90's with no modification or improvement despite the industry ballooning with different technologies during that time) shows how small the relationship between R&D and great products is.

And no-one ever accused Ford of making shoddy cars that fall apart the second they leave the floor... for many decades solid...
Further proof that Asians are crazy.

[edit] It's a joke, I am Asian. I guess I also watched that stupid video and like to play with financial instruments.
(slightly old) lecture videos for CS 229: http://www.youtube.com/course?list=ECA89DCFA6ADACE599
Again, I'm just recounting my personal experience.

FYI, I grew up and still live in the southern US, where race relations are an acknowledged problem, and where social protocols and culture are still more distinct across races than they are within them. And I'm already somewhat bad in general with social protocols.

So I'm not saying white people shouldn't talk to black people. I'm saying that, unfortunately,white people do feel uncomfortable talking to them sometimes, or at least, the bar is higher for meaningful social interaction. I think that's a shame, and unfortunately I don't know what to do about it.

But I do know that accusing white people of racism for clearly non-racist behavior, as with the calculator-necklace incident, is counterproductive, and (for me) reinforces needlessly distressful things I've experienced. That's what I was trying to get at with my earlier comment.
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I've done work at CityLink, and their IT shop is just totally clueless. This does not surprise me one bit.

This is the same company that was doing "mirroring" with Veritas Volume Manager across a metro fibre link, rather than using their TrueCopy licenses. For no reason. Two fibre cuts rendered their entire production database (tolling) environment inoperable and nearly irrecoverable, on two separate occasions. I worked about 36 hours straight getting everything back online and was given a pair of movie tickets as a thank-you gift.
Group A is guarded by a learning curve like the Swiss Alps. The only way to get past that is to get as much exposure as possible. There are already some excellent suggestions here so I won't rehash those, some other things you might consider:

Idle in #drupal and #drupal-support. Whenever an interesting question gets asked, go figure it out if you don't know the answer already.

Try tackling a few issues in the novice queues for D8. Not only will you get the kind of low-level exposure to how core really works that so many "Drupal developers" lack, you'll also get some nice bragging rights when your name's listed with the rest of the contributors.

The next time you encounter a limitation with a module you're using, in addition to hook_$N_alter()'ing the fuck out of it, try writing a patch that cleanly extends the module to do what you want. Open an issue in the module's issue queue and submit your patch. Code review can be tough to take but stick with your issue until your patch is either accepted or the module maintainer closes the issue (won't fix, whatever).

Try landing a gig with Acquia or some other big Drupal shop. You'll get to work with (and learn from) some of the top talent in the community and you'll get the kind of exposure you can't get experimenting in your spare time.

If you're serious about going pro with Drupal development drop me a line. I may be able to help and would be happy to introduce you to others in the community.
Indeed. 12 years ago, back when I juggled 4 or 5 different engines — I'd have welcomed something like Bing with open arms.

The thing is, in those 12 years, I've invested lots of data and time in Google. But be that as it may, I feel like I'm noticing a decline in the quality of Google search results. And there are rare occasions where I do give ol' Bing a few cranks to cover more bases.
I also had similar results. On the searches where I chose something I knew about to search for, I always chose Google's results. On the one example where I chose a suggested example (Halloween Costumes) I chose Bing. My other searches were for a specific camera, the type of a battery used in an old film camera, a historic sail boat designer and a Rails method.

The two thoughts I had were: 1) Have the suggested examples been prescreened to favor Bing? 2) Do the Bing results favor a shallower explorations of topics while Google's favor more in depth ones?
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Very true, can see some bulk paper shredder having a bad day.
good luck on getting a hold of the unique visitors. I ran into this and suspected the exact same "gaming"
But of course, even this article itself is paginated.

Perhaps ironically, but still.
Thanks for that. I am assuming too much in favor of the public interest at the expense of authors. However, today's debate does acknowledge that there was and is a public interest in dissemination, which helps to support copyright law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne

Linguistic amendments were also included; the line in the preamble emphasising that authors possessed books as they would any other piece of property was dropped, and the bill moved from something designed "for Securing the Property of Copies of Books to the rightful Owners thereof" to a bill "for the Encouragement of Learning, by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies".[39] Another amendment allowed anyone to own and trade in copies of books, undermining the Stationers.[39] Other changes were made when the bill went to the House of Lords, and it was finally returned to the Commons on 5 April. The aims of the resulting statute are debated; Ronan Deazley suggests that the intent was to balance the rights of the author, publisher and public in such a way as to ensure the maximum dissemination of works,[40] while other academics argue that the bill was intended to protect the Company's monopoly or, conversely, to weaken it. Oren Bracha, writing in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, says that when considering which of these options are correct, "the most probable answer [is] all of them".[41] Whatever the motivations, the bill was passed on 5 April 1710, and is commonly known simply as the Statute of Anne due its passage during the reign of Queen Anne.[42]
He's also misinterpreted. The incredulity was about 3 things: "achievements, DLC, and even Steam Workshop support." When the focus is on an opinion, rather than facts, the result is often rudeness and inaccuracy. Those two often appear together. When you focus on facts, rather than opinions, it's hard to be rude. An example from http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

'That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3.'
If [defensive item] is a CCW, you might want to try to cut back on reaching for it. One of the biggest tells for someone carrying concealed is how they constantly feel for their weapon...
Actually, Microsoft invests more money in R&D than any other tech company: http://setandbma.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/1240/

In fact, their $9B budget is $1.3B bigger than THE ENTIRE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2013/

The problem is they are just bad at making good products.
the debugger knows how to print them.

I just want to emphasize this point, as this is the main advantage in my eyes.
I'm guess this is not exactly the type of magazine you would want to be taking onto a flight without knowing about it. Can see some security chap throwing a right wobbler.
I can't imagine this advertising method is cost effective once the novelty value has worn off, so I can't really see this being a major environmental issue.
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Other factors that make aircraft like this one dirt cheap are that older aircraft (especially the 727) are very loud which makes it difficult to use them in commercial service to areas with noise restrictions. Hush kits are available but they're expensive and don't quiet the aircraft enough to operate some sensitive jurisdictions.

If the aircraft is also near the point where it has to undergo a D-check -- the most expensive kind of maintenance check where the aircraft is very nearly completely disassembled, inspected, and re-assembled -- it would make more economic sense to sell it for scrap than it would to continue operation. The BBC has a great documentary on a BA 747-400 D-check that has been posted on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_yHtfGH0nI
Ew any details on that or insight what we might see in 5 years time based upon now?
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Exciting and scary all at once.
It's a joke, I am Asian. I guess I also watched that stupid video and like to play with financial instruments.
It sounds terribly privileged to say so, but I'm afraid I have to agree. Also, quite often the quizzes are directly based on the videos ("What did line A represent in ~ graph?"), while I find I self learn better through reading.
In IT security here in Melbourne, first I've heard of it. Also why would network security specialists need to fly over 30 hours from Europe? We also have some pretty capable teams on the ground here already.

Given the time frame of when it happened it's more likely a change that has been borked in some way with difficulties in rolling back.
If you read even a little bit of the article, you'll see it's Slate's policy to do so. But even then, if you click the next page, he just completes the joke he made in the article.
We are in agreement and I understand, my point;

I am tired of the outright corruption in all industries and the massive profit and exploitation of the oil companies.

I as a citizen demand that the representatives in government require a "benficial tax" on all commercial endeavors: the big corporations are not paying financial taxes, then they must begin to pay a beneficial tax to society.

This is a tax on research requirements, innovation, infrastructure and other methods of physical payment that are immune to loopholes.
Article on single page.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/10/...
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